71 office at Lehigh. "It was a significant and fruitful meeting- I reineinber it like yesterday," he recalled dunng an intel view early this year. "It was a slightly snowy day in Noveinber, 'lnd two well-dressed gentleinen entered vvhoin I barely knew-Professor Rich- ard Field, of Princeton, and \Vïl1ialn Bowie, of the U.S. Coast and Geo- detic Survey. The} vVere both sort of imaginative and enterprising people. 'rhey knew about Ine because I had C0111e to meetings of the Ainerican Geophysical Union every spring and lead a papel. They wore derby hats, and cOJts with fur collars-I remC111- ber the snow on thein. They said they wanted to interest me in the study of the continental shelf-the shcll10w sub- Inerged borderland of the continent beyond the shore. They thought that it was a very Î1nportant geological prob- le111 to see if the steep place where the shelf ends was a geologic fault or the result of outbuilding of sedÏ1nent froin the land-was it a basic geologic fea- tlll e or a superficial appearance? And the} wondered if seisinic Ineasure- 111ents, such as T had been working with, could be used. I said yes, it could be done, provIded one had the equip- Inent and ships. If they had asked me to put selsinic equipinen t on the Inoon instead of the bottoin of the ocean, I'd have agreed, I was so desperate for a chance to do research. Bowie and Field thought the Geological Society of Ainerica would back Ine. ] got a gr.lnt of two thousand dollars, and my chief efforts from that day to this have arisen out of the problein those two great Inen propounded." Ewing could not look at a problem without seeing a dozen other probleins it was related to or was a part of, and he would not be satisfied without knowing whether what he had seen was typical or exceptional; once begun on the continental shelf, he was led by stages to look at the entire world. Bowie and FIeld thought it would be nice for geologists to know where the edge of the continent-of any conti- nent-was. Was it the edge of the continental shelf, or was that just the edge of a great pile of Inud under which the real, structural edge of the continent lay buried? (Or did the con- tinent merge Ï1nperceptibly with dB ocean basin constructed of identical Inaterials? SOlne geologIsts had said the ocean floors were former continents that foundered in the distant past.) So Bowie and Field asked Ewing to find out how thick the sediments were out to the edge of the continental shelf. The question is easy to ask, but if ge- ::;:: .:.:: &<' ' :. .( . ,,,,f':' .J ; '::, .:,: . ':: "'" ,.,' :-/ -::- ':.. % Jb. {, -tl% .: .,: :\ ' ;:" t '"<:)' <.. . .. .'. '* ' b "V < 'Y<r( .. . """'. :}. .:.., ^ -:: . ;'. ....... .,.. ^'. . ... ".ffl r "j" . .( Þt<: J .. , -c..:.... ;- "... ::= K <" f= .% . NY ....0- .- :< , ""': . :'-', - ','{' . ' ,,}. .h v:: <00 ....;..... . "." " ' .:",:.' # .<tö:i... "..... .' ",":"t ... '...... "., , ..1$ "<":. -.-. , " , ,,-, R.: .:........ ": : :::::.' -":-@A M Burn Inc. We re convinced the Gunna Gansey Setter Sweater X - is the absolute ultimatefor all port/ves e pecially kler Superbly multicolored Afghan squares hand crocheted front and back on eggshell background Entirely handmade in cot- tages of the Republic of Ireland no two weaters are exactlv alike In even sizes 34-46. Mail orders MF&S at 87 Main St I East Hampton, N Y 11937 Please add $2 00 for hand I ing $125 /' MARK FORE & STRIKE 1"1<. A world of beautiful resort fashions for Ladies and Gentlemen. PALM BEACH. DELRAY BEACH. NAPLES. SARASOTA. WINTER PARK CHATHAM . OSTERVILLE . EAST HAMPTON . BAY HEAD . LOUISVILLE